Exhibitor Sessions

In today’s world people want to access their information anywhere at
any time. The new Advantage Database Server 11 allows you to take your
current data, with no conversion, and provide it to a variety of devices
(including iPad/iPhone, Android, Macintosh, and more). By providing an
Odata interface your data can now be consumed by virtually any device
that can access the Internet. Advantage can also run in the cloud which
allows you to rapidly deploy your solutions and provide access
everywhere. Come and see how Advantage Database Server 11 can provide
your data to your customers on their devices and from the cloud.

Friday, October 19, 11:30-12:45
Saturday, October 20, 11:30-12:45

The FoxInCloud session will show you how an existing, powerful VFP
desktop app can smoothly upgrade to the latest web design standards.

You will see how the free FoxInCloud Adaptation Assistant guides you
through manual code adaptations, and showcase some typical code
adaptations.

You will also see how an existing VFP desktop application works
within FoxInCloud Application Server, and how HTML/CSS/JS code is
generated from it.

The Foxfire! Report Writer v8+ product line is a family
of data mining tools designed for regular business users. Developers
can adapt it to almost any database and add any needed features on
demand, in order to fit user needs like a glove. It is the only set
of report writers for the VFP environment that can operate
interchangeably on both platforms. Its new interactive drag-'n-drop
design tool (released May 2007) has been praised by users and
usability experts alike for simplicity without sacrificing power.
Micromega Systems, its developer/publisher offers Foxfire!
consulting, integration, and training services. Our growth strategy
is partnering, and we are currently seeking other developers
who want to partner to create custom or localized versions to
address special market opportunities. Go to
www.foxfirereporting.com to explore how we might work together.

Friday, October 19, 3:30-4:45
Saturday, October 20, 10:00-11:15

Servoy is the Next Generation development and deployment platform for
FoxPro ISVs, corporate organizations and developers who are looking to
develop Cloud, mobile, or on-premise software applications.

After Microsoft discontinued VFP, and ended support over a year ago,
many businesses adopted Servoy to successfully enhance or migrate their
VFP applications. The primary reasons for this are that Servoy has many
similarities to VFP, it is easy to learn for FoxPro developers, and it
is considered by many as the product into which VFP should have evolved.
Servoy has been evolving as a powerful cross-platform development tool
over the past 10 years and it offers training, consulting, and project
management to assist customers with projects, and there is an excellent
expanding Servoy community similar to that of FoxPro in the 90’s.

Stop by the Servoy booth and ask for a free USB stick with software,
documentation, whitepapers, tutorials, and be sure to attend our special
demo-centric vendor session.

Title: WPF/MVVM as a Business Opportunity for
FoxPro Developers
Friday, October 19, 10:00-11:15
Saturday, October 20, 8:30-9:45

Les Pinter bought copy number 252 of FoxBASE, and used it to
build his first app for his new client, LucasFilm. Within two years
he had launched the Pinter FoxBASE Letter, which became the Pinter
FoxPro Letter a year later. During the next nine years, Les wrote
and published hundreds of articles about FoxPro. He also wrote the
OpEd column, first for FoxTalk, then for Universal Thread Magazine.

Eventually the handwriting on the wall led us to rechristen the
newsletter Les Pinter's Database Journal, and to include articles
about Visual Basic, C#, and migration of FoxPro applications to .NET. A
book followed: "Visual FoxPro to Visual Basic.NET", published by
Sams Publishing. For the last 7 years, Pinter Consulting has specialized
in converting FoxPro applications to .NET, sometimes in VB, but more
recently in C#. We use Windows Presentation Foundation and the
Model-View-ViewModel paradigm, which is a perfect fit for WPF.

WPF is the reason to rewrite a FoxPro application into C#. It permits
a kind of User Experience that is just not possible with WinForms apps,
so you can deliver, not just a C# translation of your app, but a new and
more visually interesting product. And C# programmers are readily
available, which is (unfortunately) something that can't always be said
for our breed. Breathe new life into your app and give it a face lift.
Your users will be impressed.

As for our competitive advantage, we have programmers in several
countries who collaborate with us in our conversions. We do the on-site
analysis and specification, and then farm the coding out to our
experienced colleagues (some of them Microsoft MVPs) in Mexico, Brazil,
Argentina and Russia. As a result, we are always able to underbid
our competitors. Where our programmers live, a nice house in a nice
neighborhood costs $50,000.

MVVM allows us to use unit testing with nUnit. We have three levels
of Quality Control before we hand over code. We use a web-based code
repository, so our customers get their hands on code within minutes
after it's been through QC. Program exceptions are automatically
reported to the responsible programmer. Users can click on a "Send a
note to the developer" button on any screen during the development
process, and their questions or comments are passed along to the
responsible coder instantly. You couldn't get faster feedback if the
users were sitting beside the programmers.

If you have a FoxPro application that needs to be converted to .NET,
give us a call. We'll make you an offer you can't refuse. See
Pinter.com for details.